Re: [Ring] Access to an account

[Nickylodeon]

Well, I'm so happy using your product, that I just don't mind about this 
problem anymore. But there's still no 'Log In' way

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>  Original Message 
> Subject: Access to an account
> Local Time: August 5, 2017 10:26 PM
> UTC Time: August 5, 2017 5:26 PM
> From: nickylod...@protonmail.com
> To: ring@gnu.org 
> I created my first Ring account on my android device. I wouldn't do that, if 
> I had an opportunity to install it on my computer. I used to use Trisquel 
> Belenos.. It was pretty hard to get things working on distro which is based 
> on Ubuntu 7, so I decided to move to Trisquel 8(for some more reasons too). I 
> uninstalled Ring from my android device and I can't get an access to an 
> account which I created on my phone. Everything I have is mail which is 
> linked to my account and password from this account. Therefore, I can't use 
> PIN to connect my computer to it. Is it possible to request a removal of this 
> account or somehow get an access to it? Now I created new account with new 
> public *name.
> *This is sad.
> Thanks :)
>
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[Ring] Access to an account

[Nickylodeon]

I created my first Ring account on my android device. I wouldn't do that, if I 
had an opportunity to install it on my computer. I used to use Trisquel 
Belenos.. It was pretty hard to get things working on distro which is based on 
Ubuntu 7, so I decided to move to Trisquel 8(for some more reasons too). I 
uninstalled Ring from my android device and I can't get an access to an account 
which I created on my phone. Everything I have is mail which is linked to my 
account and password from this account. Therefore, I can't use PIN to connect 
my computer to it. Is it possible to request a removal of this account or 
somehow get an access to it? Now I created new account with new public *name.
*This is sad.
Thanks :)

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[Ring] Android Not Sending Anymore

[Nathan Royce]

Sooo very weird. I closed out of ring on android and maybe 10 minutes
after I sent the last message (unknown since I had deleted the
conversation and blocked), it finally arrived in gnome, though there
are many other messages that did not arrive.

[Ring] Duplicate Messages Received In Android

[Nathan Royce]

Sent a message from gnome, received it twice on android.
It happened multiple times, but when I closed out ring on android,
sent another message from gnome, opened the notification on android,
the message received was single uhhh, I take that back, from the
corner of my eye, I saw the duplicate show up.

Every message is duplicated... Hm, while I've seen duplicates before,
I think they were temporary. But I DID just rebuild the daemon, lrc
and gnome client after fetching the latest PRs.

Whatever the case, when I close out ring on android and reopen, all
the duplicates become single.

[Ring] Android Notifications

[Nathan Royce]

There is a notification for EVERY message received.

A notification should ONLY occur when ring isn't the focused app.

When ring is NOT focused, a notification probably shouldn't happen for
every message received from the same peer, or at least group the
messages (like slickdeals does).

Also don't vibrate a notification for every notification, but only if
there is NOT already a ring notification.
For example, first notification from a new message vibrates, another 5
messages received do not vibrate while the user has not swiped away
notification, user swipes away notification group, new message is
received and device vibrates (again, while ring is not focused app).

[Ring] Gnome Contact Names

[Nathan Royce]

When does a contact displayed name change from the ring id to a name?

Maybe allow the client to manually create a nickname in case of same peer names.

I submitted a contact request and my peer accepted, but the ring id
still showed until I started a call or something.
Even then, there were 2 instances of the same conversation listed in
the conversation tab, 1 with the ring id, the other with the name.
Adding/removing contact was jacked in this case, but after gnome
crashed (from a previous report), the contact and conversation is
showing correctly.

Re: [Ring] Patent-encumbered or proprietary codecs?

[Thomas Daede]

On 08/04/2017 08:18 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Thomas Daede wrote:
>> (plus, as you may have guessed by now, I'm really not a huge fan of a
>> GNU project endorsing or supporting proprietary codecs)
> 
> Are the codecs you identified (H.264, H.263, and MPEG-4 ASP) proprietary
> or patent-encumbered?

They are patent-encumbered. The licenses the patents are available under
make them proprietary (though some people don't take patents into
account for this determination). The implementation is LGPLv2.1+.

> Patent-encumbered software doesn't necessarily restrict all users the
> same way. Patent-encumbered codecs can be implemented as free software
> because not all users are under the same patent regime; a program that
> is patent-encumbered can prevent some users from using the program in
> freedom but not other users.

Users in at least the US, EU, and most of Asia are encumbered, which
likely makes up the majority.